| 释义 |
decadentdec‧a‧dent /ˈdekədənt/ adjective   - Pop music has been condemned as decadent and crude.
- We spent the whole summer drinking, smoking and lying around. It must sound totally decadent.
- A spoon of decadent caviar dresses up the dish.
- Casinos sound such arbitrary and decadent places; nobody would want their economy's fate to be determined in one.
- From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments.
- It was decadent and utopian, pure and corrupt.
- Limousines slid across the asphalt, decadent thrill-seekers cringing behind their curtained windows.
- Maybe not the first tour but by the second tour, I think it began to get decadent.
- So with football and politics as the bread and circuses of our decadent empire - whither religion?
- State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.
having a bad way of life► immoral · My parents think my lifestyle is both dangerous and immoral.· In many such stories, women are portrayed as untrustworthy and immoral. ► decadent a way of living that is decadent is concerned mainly with pleasure and enjoyment, and not with hard work or serious activities: · We spent the whole summer drinking, smoking and lying around. It must sound totally decadent. ► degenerate formal not keeping to many of society's accepted moral standards -- use this especially about someone who behaves in a way that is sexually immoral: · He was labelled a degenerate youth by his teachers, and left the town before he was 16. having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters:  Pop music was condemned as decadent and crude.—decadently adverb |